/WG/ WEARABLES GENERAL

Hello, Lains! What wearable tech do you use throughout your daily life? Some might argue that wearable tech is a minor form of augmentation. Everything from smartwatches to the Sensebridge Northpaw are welcome here. I own a model of the original Pebble smartwatch, with a watchband I paracorded myself. The attached picture is a random one I found on the internet, however (mine is black and olive-green). I created a watchface that read "fuarrrk YOU" in large, block letters and told me the time/date/weather in a small status bar beneath. I also set it up to vibrate at set intervals of five/ten/fifteen minutes in order to better tune my sense of passing time. The Northpaw is an anklet that vibrates in relation to which way the wearer is facing. >"A North Paw is an anklet that tells the wearer which way is North. The anklet holds eight cellphone vibrator motors around your ankle. A control unit senses magnetic north and turns on and off the motors. At any given time only one motor is on and this motor is the closest to North. The skin senses the vibration, and the wearer’s brain learns to associate the vibration with direction, giving the wearer an intuitive sense of which way is North. "

I like to stay low-tech when outdoors, more reliable. The only object using electricity that I carry is my watch, standard 30€ piece of plastic that can withstand brief immersion and falling on rocks. >>405 This northpaw thing could be nice, but it really is too big at the moment. And with only 8 motors, it's not precise enough, you would still need to carry a compass if you really needed to know the north. As a urban navigation thing, maybe it could be useful if reduced in size.

Had a pebble watch, started to scramble so I stopped wearing it while dealing with support, and I didn't even miss it. Never wore the replacement I got sent. Isn't the north paw also something you can embed into your skin?

>>447 I got a PTR that recently stopped charging, still wear it since I'm used to wearing a watch and the size isn't bulky however.

>>409 People will see this differently, but the fact that all of this is in our phones proves we've already achieved full cyberpunk. Which begs the question, where did they hide the dystopia?

>>410 The Northpaw falls more under "mildly interesting" in my book. As you've pointed out, it's not precise enough for real navigation, but it's a handy cheat mechanism for people who never put enough ranks in survival to be able to read natural cues and make a guess, or who haven't worked on situational awareness, or those who just have such lousy spatial awareness that they just can't help but get lost. I don't really have a lot of wearables. Got a solar powered digital watch with a few sensors in it (baro, thermo, basic compass) that auto-syncs to WWVB once a day. Got my smartphone, which is currently nothing special. Carry around a LRF because it's a handy magnified optic and I'm trying to work on learning to guestimate ranges in metric.